THE WAKE OF 2012, TROPICAL STORM DEBBIE. FIRST ALERT METEOROLOGIST AND NOW THIS ABNORMALLY WET SUMMER SEASON PLAYED A PART IN THE SINKHOLE. WE THINK IT HAS, WE WENT BACK AND WANTED TO SEE HOW MUCH RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED ACROSS OUR TEN COUNTIES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF JUNE AND YOU TAKE A LOOK AT MARION COUNTY AND LAKE COUNTY, THE DARKER SHADES OF FLEW HERE APPROACHING 20 INCHES OF RAIN. WE THINK THAT IS THE BIG CONTRIBUTOR WITH SINKHOLES, WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION, WHAT IS A SINKHOLE AND WHY DO THEY FORM IN FLORIDA? LET'S TAKE LOOK AT THE ANIMATION, THEY OCCUR DUE THE STATE'S SANDY FLOOR SITTING ON TOP OF CLAY WHICH IS BY A LAY E OF LIMESTONE, LIMESTONE IS A STRAINER THAT WATER MIGRATES DOWN AND HITS UNDERGROUNDS RIVER, WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH RAIN OR DROWBT IT CAN CREATE A VOID LIKE A BALLOON WITH AIR AND THAT GETS BIGGER, AS IT GETS BUGGER THE EARTH ON TOP BECOMES TOO HEAVY AND THE BALLOON POPS CREATING A CATASTOPHIC EVENT,